It’s one thing to have a collection of gifted baby clothes already assembled, but reality really starts to sink in when you open up your first shipment of stuff like…diapers.

We’re planning to cloth diaper at home (this won’t be an option at daycare, unfortunately), so we ordered a prefold cloth diapering “starter kit” with all the basics. (Prefolds are the cheapest type of cloth diapers, and we’ll definitely save money just using them part of the time.) The kit contains 3 dozen newborn diapers, 1 dozen of the next size up, 6 different brands/types of waterproof diaper covers to try out, 2 dozen cloth wipes, wipes solution, spray bottle, and a Snappi diaper fastener. We added 2 washable/waterproof changing pads and a wet bag. Everything looks very nice.

Bartholomew Bunny patiently modeled the diaper covers for us. There were some fit issues in the rear, but we’re assuming that the Bean probably won’t have a fluffy bunny tail.

It’s really interesting how different all the diaper cover designs are. Some have only snaps, some only velcro, some a mix, some have adjustable heights, leg gussets, etc. This will definitely be one of those cases where we’ll have try them all and see what works best.

Perl definitely approves of our hippie cloth-diapering ways.